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Password to open IE

Is there a way to impose a security password on the Internet Explorer 6? We have a Windows 98SE machine with IE6 and would like to prevent certain users from launching the program without a password. We also thought about upgrading to Windows 2000/XP but just wanted to make sure if it can be done first.

To prevent certain users from launching the app without a password indicates you want to be able to stop certain people from internet browsing.

Definately upgrade to W2k or XP.

You could then allow / restrict access to files / folders by account name, etc.

You have an Internet User policy in place? If this is a businss then you should consider implementing one as part of HR responsibility so that if a user is caught viewing something they shouldn't, they have already been warned as to what is acceptable and what is not.

Also putting in a Proxy so that the web browsing habits can be monitored, and letting users know that they can be monitored (refer User policy) could also not hurt.

Hmm.. I am using firewall/proxy server to control the Internet access, locking up the Internet Explorer was not a good option since most of the client workstation need it to access to certain local resource

A couple of years ago I installed RedHat 9 with Squid - see http://www.squid-cache.org - on an old PC as a web proxy server for 120 users. Squid comes as standard with a Fedora Core 4 server.

It is possible to allow or deny browser access by IP address or user authentication. Several user authentication methods are available, e.g. LDAP, SMB and MSNT. In other words, Squid can co-exist with your Windows servers.

Squid has flexible configuration options. You can deny access to sites like Hotmail from all users and you can grant access to only a list of selected work related websites to some your users. You also control the filetypes users are allowed to download.

We had to restrict some users in our office environment from accessing IE and a few other programs. We use a product called Winguard pro which can be downloaded from the website by the same name and it works great. Only users with the password can access the Internet or certain programs on the computer.

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